Building DH Capacity Workshop 2016
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Ashley Sanders, “Building Capacity for DH Work in the Library and Beyond,” Digital Initiatives Symposium (University of San Diego, April 27, 2016).
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Building DH Capacity Workshop 2016
- 1. Ashley Sanders, Ph.D. Digital Scholarship Coordinator Claremont Colleges Library
- 3. Agenda How do we build capacity for something that is often so new to the very people we’re trying to assist and support that they, themselves, cannot define what they need?
- 4. 1. Introductions 2. Firestarter 3. Affinity Map 4. 4 C’s 5. Impact- Effort 6. Case Study 7. Q&A
- 5. 3 minutes: Complete the following statement: My ideal DH community… 2. Firestarter Is… Makes… Does… Includes… Values… Is not… 1 minute: Choose the 4 most important to you & add them to the poster paper
- 6. 1. Cluster or group sticky notes in columns 2. Determine theme for each cluster or column & write it over that grouping 3. Reflection 3. Affinity Map
- 7. Affinity Map Summary: Characteristics of Ideal DH Communities Institutional Support Funding Staffing Space Resources Support from the top Involves stakeholders @ all levels on campus Understanding of time & money required to produce quality DH projects Values Diversity Inclusion: Accessible to all Open, welcoming to all interested, regardless of discipline Friendly Community Includes all voices, especially those historically silenced Collaboration
- 8. Affinity Map Summary: Characteristics of Ideal DH Communities Values/Ideals Open access Honors & instructs members on IP rights Acknowledges privilege & power Values methodologies & epistemologies of humanities Makes a difference in the humanities Attitude Always evolving Open to failure Willing to experiment Playful Creative Unafraid Challenges linear thinking
- 9. Affinity Map Summary: Characteristics of Ideal DH Communities What it does Tells stories It’s more than digitization Makes products discoverable Makes connections between past & present Engages students & brings them into the humanities Empowers students, librarians & faculty to become content creators Provides perspective & insight Makes art Systems Tech infrastructure to support digital projects Access to digitized source material Software Hardware Long-term preservation Responsive design Located in a physical space – the library
- 14. Components: Parts of a DH program Characteristics: Features of a DH program Characters: People associated with a DH program Challenges: Obstacles associated with building a DH program 4. The Four C’s
- 15. 4. The Four C’s Each team will be responsible for 1 C. 3 minutes to plan information gathering strategy What do you want to know? What questions will you ask? 5 minutes to gather information. 1 idea/note. 3 minutes for information analysis. Analyze & organize your data. Post contents on matrix Share findings
- 16. 4 C’s Components Staffing, support, expertise Technology & tech infrastructure Expansive, Artistic, Narrative Research tools Projects Repositories Workflows Metadata Physical space Organizational Anchor Participants: students, faculty, librarians, staff Characteristics Strong institutional support Schools, departments, IT Diversification in funding Collaborative Accessible/Findable Project idea through completion Working with students Value-added to institution Showcase projects/products Cross pollination among disciplines but begins with humanities Components: Characteristics: Characters: Challenges:
- 18. 4 C’s Characters DH Center Manager Systems analyst Instructors A/V Specialists Data Viz experts Quantitative/Qualitative data analysts Advancement officer Risk & info sec specialist Digital preservation expert Graphic Designers GIS expert Visual Resources Librarian Copyright officer Student workers Community members Challenges Institutional buy-in Determining service needs Encouraging interdisciplinarity & collaboration Funding Getting word out Terminology Fuzzy project ideas Process/workflows to complete projects Components: Characteristics: Characters: Challenges:
- 20. 5. Impact & Effort Matrix What do we need to do to build DH capacity, given the ideas generated in the previous activities? 10 minutes: Generate ideas (1 per sticky note) as a group
- 21. High Impact/Low Effort High Impact/High Effort Low Impact/Low Effort Low Impact/High Effort 5. Impact & Effort Matrix Impact Effort
- 22. High Impact/Low Effort: Identify powerful faculty champion(s) Write DH into institutional strategic plan Identify potential projects Transfer existing content to repository Kickstarter program for faculty Meet-ups & mailing list List of resources Marketing Inventory talent, interest, tech capacity Define core values High Impact/High Effort: Project management Central coordinator to connect people as team Dedicated financial support Talented people willing to experiment & fail Create center Offering DH courses Training subject librarians in DH Determine priorities in face of resource constraints Establish life cycle of rpoject Low Impact/Low Effort: Inventory which humanities projects already exist but are not necessarily digital Low Impact/High Effort: Form a project committee/advisory group Award competition Impact Effort
- 23. High Impact/Low Effort High Impact/High Effort Low Impact/Low Effort Low Impact/High Effort
- 24. High Impact/Low Effort High Impact/High Effort Low Impact/Low Effort Low Impact/High Effort
- 25. High Impact/Low Effort High Impact/High Effort Low Impact/Low Effort Low Impact/High Effort
- 26. Reflection Take 5-10 minutes to jot down ideas about what you’d like to try/apply at your home campus
- 27. 10 minute break Be sure to check out the ideas of other groups!
- 28. Supporting Digital Humanities: Report of a CNI Executive Roundtable Held Dec. 7 & 8, 2014 (May 2016); See also What We Heard at the Roundtable: Transcript of a Project Briefing, CNI Fall 2014 Membership Meeting, Dec. 9, 2014. Coalition for Networked Information. Digital Scholarship Centers: Trends and Good Practice https://www.cni.org/events/cni- workshops/digital-scholarship-centers-cni-workshop (Please read the report and at least 3 institutional profiles) Bethany Nowviskie, Too Small to Fail (October 13, 2012 blog post) http://nowviskie.org/2012/too-small-to-fail/ Alix Keener, The Arrival Fallacy: Collaborative Research Relationships in the Digital Humanities, http://digitalhumanities.org:8081/dhq/vol/9/2/000213/0002 13.html Resources
- 29. Edward L. Ayers, “Does Digital Scholarship Have a Future?” Monday, August 5, 2013, EDUCAUSE Review, http://er.educause.edu/articles/2013/8/does-digital-scholarship- have-a-future Nancy L. Maron and Sarah Pickle, Sustaining the Digital Humanities: Host Institution Support beyond the Start-Up Phase (Ithaka S+R, June 18, 2014). http://www.sr.ithaka.org/wp- content/mig/SR_Supporting_Digital_Humanities_20140618f.pdf Nancy Maron, “The Digital Humanities Are Alive and Well and Blooming: Now What?”EDUCAUSE Review, http://er.educause.edu/articles/2015/8/the-digital-humanities- are-alive-and-well-and-blooming-now-what Miriam Posner, “Here and There: Creating DH Community,” http://miriamposner.com/blog/here-and-there- creating-dh-community/ Resources
Notes de l'éditeur
- Introduce myself and ask others to make introductions at their tables if they haven’t already
- Today, we’re here to explore. How do we build capacity for something so new and for which the people we’re trying to assist and support cannot clearly define their needs or goals? My goal is that you walk out with at least one or two actionable ideas to take to your home institution. You may end up with a whole list. However, my other goal is to introduce an approach to fuzzy problems like “how do we develop a DH program at our institution that works for us?” You can borrow and tailor ideas from other colleges and universities, but using this approach, you will also develop new and creative ways to work with what you have and chart a course to grow your program beyond where you’re currently at. This approach is called “Gamestorming” and comes from the book by the same name. I had actually purchased this book well before I went to ELI this year because it looked really interesting. While at the conference I got to experience it first hand in the liberal arts colleges workshop and saw its potential. While we won’t be doing the same exercises I experienced at ELI, our activities have been chosen because of their application to our particular question. Each one builds on the activities that have come before as we walk through the three phases of a larger game: opening (generating new, exciting, and sometimes crazy ideas), exploring (seeing where those ideas take us), and closing (reflecting on what we’ve learned and determining actionable steps). Since you’re working in teams with people from multiple institutions, not everything will directly apply to your situation, however, I’ll do my best to keep us on schedule so you have time built into this workshop to reflect on what does or could apply. And, as I mentioned, you’ll see this process in action. Just a warning … strap in and hold on… this gets a little chaotic and crazy, but I promise to close what we begin. Finally, I’ll present some ideas and lessons learned from my work at Claremont. Perhaps one of those ideas will spark others for you. Feel free to borrow, revise, and make the ideas presented here in the activities and brief talk your own.
- Describe each, its goal, and how they build on one another: Firestarter: Get ideas flowing. First we have to have at least a fuzzy idea of what we’re aiming for before we can build capacity for it. Affinity Map: Determine how those ideas fit together in themes to clarify the target (which will change, btw, as you build your program) 4 C’s: This will help us reflect on what we already have and what we need: Components, characteristics, challenges, and characters Impact-Effort: Finally, we’ll develop some action steps based on our clarified target, our current and projected staffing, skills, etc., and known potential obstacles Case Study Q&A and reflection: I’m saving this for the end because I don’t want to influence or limit your ideas. There’s no one right way to do this, and I want you to feel free to explore on your own and develop your own ideas first.
- This game is about exploring and sharing what you know about building a DH program. How you build capacity depends on these 4 Cs.
- This is where it gets a little chaotic – but only for a few minutes. If this feels uncomfortable, feel free to buddy up with someone, and know that we’re only going to do this for 5 minutes. Is there anything missing? Do these items mean the same thing? Encourage others to reflect & add more information
- 10 minutes to place ideas on the matrix and discuss the decisions along the way
- 10 minutes to place ideas on the matrix and discuss the decisions along the way
- When we come back, we’ll transition to looking at the Claremont Colleges as a case study and have time for further reflection, and question/answer.